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Our mission is to create opportunities for communities within the intersections of queer (LGBTQIA+) and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) identities to experiment, connect, and thrive through the production and experience of underground art… Our mission is to create opportunities for communities within the intersections of queer (LGBTQIA+) and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) identities to experiment, connect, and thrive through the production and experience of underground art and dance music culture. We define underground art and dance music culture as a grassroots movement that resists mainstream societal and institutional norms by promoting individuality, self-determination, and self-expression through a shared and ever-expansive culture of art and dance music. We seek to uphold Chicago's cultural legacy as the birthplace of house music, a musical genre and cultural phenomenon created by the intersection of Chicago's black, brown, and LGBTQIA+ community, by promoting underground art and dance music as powerful forms of activism with the power to unite individuals across generations, cultural backgrounds, and identities.